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Déjà Vu, All Over Again: Mitch Maynard goes for back-to-back national championships with host teams
The Past, The Present, The Future: From Canada’s National Junior A Championship to the NHL
Brooks Bandits and Summerside Western Capitals to meet for 2013 RBC Cup
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Sledge hockey is an innovative team sport that incorporates the same rules and discipline structure as regular ice hockey. Sledge hockey players sit on specially designed sleds, or ‘sledges’, with skate blades under the seat. Two sticks are used to not only pass, stickhandle and shoot the puck, but also to propel and maneuver their sledges.
For as long as I can remember, I have always been tinkering around with my sled to try to get it to fit me the best way possible. Even now, sometimes I am still not happy with the way I sit in my sled. Sometimes I shift around when I get hit and it gets frustrating.
The sport of sledge hockey, an innovative team sport that incorporates the same rules and discipline structure as able-bodied hockey, was invented by three Swedish wheelchair athletes on a frozen lake in Stockholm in 1961.
